• Issues impacting lab regulations and reimbursement S. 610 - the Protecting Medicare & American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act
• Regulation of laboratory developed tests H.R. 4128/S.2209 - Verifying Accurate, Leading-edge IVCT Development (VALID) Act

Duration: October 1, 2018 to November 19, 2021

General Issues: Medicare/Medicaid, Health Issues, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $240,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2018: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Labor - Dept of (DOL)